Envisioning Ireland
Subtitle: W.B. Yeats's occult nationalism
By: Claire Nally.
Series: Remagining Ireland -- 10
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783039118823
Subjects: Yeats, W. B. -- 1865-1939 -- Knowledge -- Occultism; Yeats, W. B. -- 1865-1939; Occultism in literature; Occultism -- Ireland -- History; Mysticism in literature; Ireland -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction "a secret mystical propaganda": the castle of heroes; title: "In a time of civil war": Anglo-Irish identity, national conflict and a vision; title: Forging and forgery: the "Giraldus" portrait in a vision; title: Imperial politics, Leo Africanus and discarnate states; title: The "secret society" of theatre: Yeats's middle plays; title: Yeats's "fanatic heart": the Golden Dawn, secrecy and anti-semitism.